On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> William ChopsWestfield wrote:
>
>>> Mailing lists could be run by appointment with the
>>> administrator of the originating server.
>>
>> NNTP, more or less?
>
> I don't really understand the purposes of mailing lists anymore. There used
> to be a reason for them, but I don't see any advantages these days over
> NNTP.

The purpose of mailing lists was to evade flame wars and spam from the 
NNTP groups ;-)

Peter
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